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Show offers fans chance to get rowdy
■ Six-piece ensemble The
Motet wants its audience to let
it all out on the dance floor
By Lisa Toth
Oregon Daily Emerald
Dave Watts dares Eugene music
lovers to have the time of their lives,
even if they’ve never felt this way
before.
Watt, founder of the six-piece en
semble The Motet, said he and his
bandmates dig reactions from the
crowd, and they’re all about having
fun. The Motet’s concert Friday night
at WOW Hall is a chance for fans to
be as rowdy as possible. The more
energy they have, the better.
“We’re not the kind of group that
thrives off our own music — we
thrive off the audience,” Watts said.
The Motet show promises tradi
tional Afro-Cuban jazz funk and
Brazilian grooves, plus the opportu
nity for the audience members to ex
press themselves and let it all out on
the dance floor. Watts said he hopes
the audience is pumped up for the
show because the band will be
recording live tracks to put on their
upcoming live CD release.
The concert, which begins at 8:30
p.m. at WOW Hall, located at 291W.
8th Ave., and is open to people of all
ages. Doors open at 8 p.m. Reed
Davaz, box office manager and WOW
Hall volunteer, said the venue has'
400 tickets available for the concert,
half of which are on sale in advance.
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Davaz said she’s heard The Motet
before and enjoys its diversity and
unique range of sounds. They sing in at
least five different languages, and
Watts said some of their music in
cludes Nigerian traditional lyrics prais
ing African deities. This ethnic addi
tion to their music comes from their
two trips to Cuba and six months that
lead vocalist Jans Ingber spent travel
ing and studying music in Africa.
Davaz also said the opening Latin
dance band, Son Melao, will add
their salsa style to start off the night.
“There are not too many opportu
nities to hear Latin music in concert
— especially for the under 21
crowd,” said Davaz, a University
senior studying Spanish.
Son Melao features a variety of mu
sicians on instruments ranging from
the bongos, congas and timbales to
the saxophone, trumpet and flute.
Bob Fennessy, publicist for WOW
Hall, said The Motet performed with
Son Melao at the hall in the fall, and
has a large local following.
“They’re a jam band that’s differ
ent from most bands that fall into that
category,” Fennes^y said.
The group consists of Watts (drum
kit), Scott Messersmith (percussion),
Ingber (lead vocals, percussion),
Mike Tieman (guitar), Greg Raymond
(organ, Fender Rhodes, piano) and
newcomer Paul McDaniel (bass).
One of the songs Watts said they’ll
be performing Friday night is called
“War is coming,” and was written by
the band War in the 1970s. But Watts
said the issues the lyrics address re
garding Vietnam are still pertinent to
today’s international relations.
Eugene is Ingber’s hometown, and
his local roots will draw the local
crowd. The Eugene native spent his
high school days playing in two
bands, The Boogie Patrol Express
and The Benjamins. Ingber also still
has a West African drum and dance
base of friends and family in town.
Ingber’s father, Howard, lives in Eu
gene, and aside from being a pro-ac
tive fan who has been publicizing
their performance, he’ll host the
group at his home while they are here.
Watts started The Motet on Hal
loween 1998, in Boulder, Colo.
And when they tour, Watts said
the band faces the “same chal
lenges as being married.”
“We’re like a family,” he said.
“We wake up together and go to
sleep together.”
They have been on the road for
one week of their three-week tour,
hitting White fish, Mont., Idaho and
then Seattle.
“We were in Whitefish tearing it
up snowboarding in the mountains
and singing at night,” Watts said. “It
doesn’t get much better than that. ”
After a stop in Eugene, they’ll head
to California. Watts said because they
know each other so well it has im
proved the quality of the music they
are able to produce.
“We’re not like *NSYNC,” he said.
‘ ‘We don’t each have our own tour bus. ’ ’
Tickets are $8 in advance and $10
at the door. Tickets are available at
CD World, Face the Music, House of
Records, Taco Loco, WOW Hall and
the EMU Ticket Office.
E-mail reporter Lisa Toth
atlisatoth@dailyemeratd.com
PFC
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the past for MSA and the Jewish
Student Union, suggesting the cri
teria PFC uses to distinguish be
tween “religious” and “cultural”
may be as blurry as the two inter
twining meanings of the words.
The group decides which events
are religious on a case-by-case basis,
PFC chairwoman Mary Elizabeth
Madden said.
“There are no set guidelines,” she
said. “We use common sense. If there
were certain events that clearly
screamed ‘religious,’ we wouldn’t
fund those.”
Yet student groups’ varying inter
pretations of “religious events” im
plies the definition isn’t cut and
dried.
In MSA’s Feb. 4 PFC hearing, PFC
member Erin Pursell asked MSA
whether Ramadan and Eid Al-Adha
could be considered religious holi
days, according to minutes from that
night’s meeting.
An MSA member said the holi
days were analogous to Christmas
and Easter.
ASUO Student Senate President
Peter Watts, who was at the hear
ing, said this statement should have
set off an alarm that the event was
religious.
“Even though Hanukkah and the
Jewish culture are intrinsically tied,
it is also a religious event. The same
can be said for Christmas,” he said.
“Christmas and Easter are clearly re
ligious holidays.”
But PFC unanimously voted to
fund the celebrations, despite con
versations implying the events could
be considered religious.
When asked what, in particular,
went on in the MSA meeting, Mad
den admitted after spending more
than 100 hours in the PFC meetings,
she couldn’t remember the details.
Madden said she found out the tape
recorder was broken after the Feb. 4
meeting, so tapes from that night are
blank.
Madden said she remembered a
language barrier between PFC and
MSA members, and she relied on
PFC member Nadia Hasan, who is
Muslim, to explain the holiday.
According to the minutes, Hasan
described the holiday as “an oppor
tunity for everyone to understand
the Islamic culture.”
MSA co-director Mahmoud Ab
dul-Jawad said the three-day holiday
takes place during the Islamic pil
grimage season. He said that MSA’s
event is cultural because it is a cele
bration that incorporates no specific
rituals or religious ceremonies.
“It wouldn’t be considered reli
gious because there isn’t worship
ping,” he said.
He added that because PFC did
not define for him “religious,” he
“can’t give an exact answer on that”
question.
This isn’t the first year MSA’s reli
gious affiliation was brought up.
Madden said there’s been little de
bate in recent years, but members of
the ASUO Executive in 1986 ques
tioned using incidental fees to fund
a groups that seemed unavoidably
tied to religion, according to ASUO
memos from January 1986. In the
Jewish Student Union’s 2001 hear
ing, questions also arose regarding
the religious implications of JSU’s
program statement.
When University President Dave
Frohnmayer’s office reviewed the
program’s mission and goals state
ment, he wanted to alter the state
ment to represent the group’s cultur
al, rather than religious, principles,
Executive Assistant President Dave
Hubin said. The president’s office
asked then-ASUO President Jay
Breslow to discuss the situation with
the group. The group agreed to the
changes, Hubin said.
JSU co-director David Kent said
that although the name “Jewish Stu
dent Union” implies the group is a
religious organization, JSU focuses
on the culture. “Jews have created
around their religion.”
“Since Jews have been separated
out from Christians and Muslims,
we’ve created our own culture,
dance and song that may not neces
sarily have to do with prayer,” he
said.
He used the religious holiday
“Pasach” as an example of an event
JSU considers cultural.
“In Israel today, you can be a very
secular Jew,” he said. “You still
might eat the traditional foods, and
gather with your family,” he said.
But the cultural sides of Pasach
can be celebrated without recogniz
ing the religious origins of the cele
bration, he said.
David Jaimes, MEChA’s co-direc
tor, made a similar comment about
the Catholic holiday Dia de los
Muertos — a celebration of the after
death spirit.
“Mexico is primarily Catholic, but
in Mexico we don’t incorporate
that,” he said. “We focus on the cul
tural rather than the religious as
pects.”
E-mail reporter Diane Huber
at dianehuber@dailyemerald.com